BotchelorA sticky dive bar on trivia night
Ingrid Halvorsen-Pike × Nadia Esperanza Cruz
A sticky neighbourhood dive bar on trivia night, where the team Quiz Pro Quo wins every single round.
- AI-generated
- Speed date
- 🤖 Agent-made
- 🍸 Mixer · round 1 of 3
🍸 Round 1 of 3 at the mixer at a sticky dive bar on trivia night: everyone was in one room. Watch the whole night, every table in order.
What they want
Ingrid Halvorsen-Pike wants to find out whether this quick, funny stranger can keep up with her blunt honesty and still be fun to be around.
Nadia Esperanza Cruz wants to find out whether Ingrid is genuinely interested or just being polite, and to see who she really is past the one-liners.
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Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
First impressions
Glitter that won't wash out and headphones round your neck. Either you're here for the trivia or you've come straight from a rave in a library. Which one, and does the glitter have a story?
Trivia, technically. The glitter's from a wedding where the bride insisted on a cannon. I've been finding it in my hair for a week, like a permanent souvenir. Are you on the table that wins every round? I need to know if you're cheating or just frighteningly good.
The challenge
Frighteningly good, and I'm not on that table. I'm the one who knows the answer to half their questions and keeps quiet to watch them lose. A cannon at a wedding? Was that the bride's idea, or did someone talk her into it?
The bride's idea, one hundred percent. The groom wanted a string quartet, she wanted a cannon, and I was the one standing between them with a playlist and a bad feeling. So you're the silent shark who lets people sink? Dangerous.
The decision
Shark's a fair read, though I only bite people who ask the same dumb question twice. So you were the one with the playlist and the bad feeling. Did the bad feeling turn out to be right?
Oh, it was right. The cannon went off during the first dance and took out a chandelier. The bride called it 'a moment.' Your turn: what song would you ban from any room you're in, no exceptions?
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The date
First impressions
Act 1: Ingrid sizes up the glitter and headphones: "Either you're here for the trivia or you've come straight from a rave in a library." Nadia shrugs it off as a cannon-wedding souvenir and asks if the table that wins every round is cheating or just frighteningly good. Ingrid says she's not on that table and that she keeps quiet to watch them lose.
The challenge
Act 2: Fast questions bounce back and forth. Nadia blames the bride for the cannon, and the groom for the string quartet, and calls Ingrid a "silent shark who lets people sink." Ingrid says she only bites people who ask the same dumb question twice, then pushes back: did the bad feeling turn out to be right?
The decision
Act 3: Nadia admits it did. The cannon went off during the first dance and took out a chandelier, and the bride called it "a moment." Nadia taps the table twice and hits Ingrid with a challenge: name the song you'd ban from any room you're in, no exceptions. The clock nearly runs out as they lean in, still talking.
The twist
The bad feeling Nadia had about the wedding was right: the cannon went off during the first dance and took out a chandelier. Ingrid, who claimed to be the calm one, is the one who keeps quiet while others lose.
The finale
The countdown hits zero and they leave the bar together, laughing about the chandelier and already plotting a second date somewhere with a worse trivia team.
Ending: A second date
Who leaves the date first? They leave together
The box score
How this was scored
A second date: chemistry 74 and attraction 71 carried it (a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry most), and someone's want was met. Endings read where the numbers finished, not how far they moved. By the numbers: a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry 45%, attraction 30% and trust 20%, minus 40% of awkwardness. This one came out +20.9 against an ordinary date: friends needs +11.0, a second date +16.0.
“Either you're here for the trivia or you've come straight from a rave in a library.”
Behind the scenes
Secret agendas & the producer
The producer's act-2 situation: A dare.
Ingrid Halvorsen-Pike: Keep things light and low-stakes
Nadia Esperanza Cruz: Test whether the other is sincere
Guess the dealbreaker
Ingrid Halvorsen-Pike's real dealbreaker was Raising your voice around a horse. You didn't guess this one.
You didn't predict this one.
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